Since dawn Saturday, Israeli airstrikes on homes east of Gaza City, killed at least 19 Palestinians and wounded dozens more.
Palestinian ambulance crews recovered 5 Palestinians who were killed and a number of wounded after the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted two homes belonging to the Al-Jamasi and Al-Ramlawi families in the Al-Shaaf area in the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. They also recovered 5 martyrs and a number of wounded as a result of targeting a house for the Hathat family in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
On Saturday evening, the Israeli occupation forces bombed several areas southwest of Gaza City.
A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that Israeli gunboats bombed, in conjunction with heavy gunfire from occupation vehicles, the areas of Tal al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin, southwest of Gaza City.
The correspondent added that Israeli warplanes flew densely and at low altitude in the airspace of Gaza City.
Also Saturday, rescue crews recovered the bodies of nine martyrs from various areas in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources at the European Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis reported the arrival of the bodies of 9 martyrs from different areas in the city of Rafah, who were recovered from homes bombed by the occupation army yesterday and in previous times.
Since dawn today, 19 citizens were martyred and at least 50 others were injured, in raids by occupation aircraft that targeted 3 homes in the Al-Shuja’iya and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods, east of Gaza City, while the occupation artillery intensified its bombardment of areas west of Rafah.
The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, resulting in the death of more than 37,296 citizens and the injury of 85,197 others, an infinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble .
Funeral of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis:
Tragic news from Gaza: Journalist Mahmoud Abu Salama’s sister and her child have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home during the recent bombardments. pic.twitter.com/JavCcwfeqo
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 15, 2024
updated from:
Day 253: Dozens Killed As Israeli Army Continues Bombing Gaza
Published on: Jun 15, 2024 at 12:44
On Saturday, Day 253 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells targeted many densely populated areas, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including women and children.
In Gaza City, the army continued the firing of missiles and shells at several neighborhoods, killing at least nineteen Palestinians and wounding more than 50, in three homes in the Sheja’eyya and the Tuffah neighborhoods.
Medics and rescue teams found the corpses of five Palestinians and rescued several injured from homes of the Al-Jamassi and the Ramlawi families that the army bombarded in the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The teams also found the corpses of five Palestinians and many wounded under the rubble of a bombarded home for the Hathat family in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Also in Gaza, one child was killed and more than thirty Palestinians were injured when the army fired a missile at the home of Othman Al-Jamassy.
Gaza City and northern Gaza remain under constant Israeli bombings and violations, famine, and diseases, as the Palestinians only have access to bread and some canned food.
Medical sources at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, have confirmed that more than 200 children suffer severe malnutrition.
Many families have no alternative but to feed their children bread dipped in tea to try to relieve their hunger sensation.
Three-year-old Amjad Al-Qanou from Jabalia, northern Gaza, is suffering from severe malnutrition, weighing only 5 kg. This is due to the shortage of food supplies amid the ongoing Israeli blockade and genocide. pic.twitter.com/RDUUJKNBzl
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 15, 2024
Furthermore, the Israeli army wired and detonated dozens of homes and buildings in the Al-Mighraqa area, north of the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
At least two Palestinians were killed and many were injured when the army fired a missile at a home for the Abu ‘Aisha family in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army fired missiles and shells at several parts of the city, especially the eastern areas, causing casualties.
Her house was bombed by Israeli occupation tonight and several family members were killed and wounded..
“𝘚𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺, 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨. I recognised I was bombed, but 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢,”… pic.twitter.com/8YOWB05qY4
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) June 15, 2024
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, Israeli Quadcopter drones fired live rounds at Palestinians in the Shaboura refugee camp, in the center of the city, killing Ahmad Hamdan, 30, while the army continued the firing of artillery shells, in addition to the writing and detonating of many homes.
At least two Palestinians were killed and three were injured when the army targeted areas, east of Rafah.
Furthermore, Palestinian medics and rescue teams uncovered the corpses of three Palestinians under the rubble in the Saudi neighborhood, west of Rafah.
Deputy executive director of the World Food Programme, Carl Skau, stated that “one million displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza are trapped without clean water or sanitation”, and “the level of destruction is shocking”.
Testimony of Reem Al-Assar, a young girl on a hospital bed with wounds covering her face, barely able to speak. Reem recounts her experience during the Nuseirat camp massacre on June 8th, when U.S. and Israeli Special Forces bombarded and raided the area, killing over 274… pic.twitter.com/uy0fo2obgA
— Palestine and MENA Info Center (@PALMENA_IC) June 15, 2024
“Our main concern at the moment is in the south. Since the operation in Rafah, we’ve had to move our offices and our warehouses to Deir el-Balah further north and we are now struggling to assist hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced from Rafah,” he said.
“Food, basic food commodities are available but we’re extremely concerned about the protection crisis and water and sanitation crisis. There is deep concern about the trajectory of the situation in the south.”
Al-Jazeera English quoted Rana Zuaiter, a Clinical nutritionist, stating that the children in the Gaza Strip have no food security, and are thirsty as the water is contaminated, and added that about %90 of the children suffer from hepatitis, diarrhea, and several other diseases.
She also told Al-Jazeera that “one in three children is suffering from starvation. It’s a huge number of man-made starvation, which Israel uses as a weapon of war,” and urged an immediate end to the Israeli air strikes to allow the entry and distribution of food in the Gaza Strip.
Painful farewell in #Gaza as 14 people were killed and 50 others wounded in #Israeli_bombing over the night!
“I wish would have been killed with them,” the little girl says while bidding farewell to her parents and siblings! pic.twitter.com/mt0tOS6UNB
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) June 15, 2024
It is worth mentioning that, on Friday, two Palestinian children died from severe malnutrition and dehydration.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the army committed four massacres of families in less than 24 hours, killing and wounding dozens, including 34 slain Palestinians and 71 wounded who were moved to medical centers, while many remain under the rubble.
Israel has now killed at least 37.266 Palestinians, including more than 15.694 children, and injured more than 85.102, in addition to the thousands of missing Palestinians, largely under the rubble, on streets and in destroyed alleys, across the coastal enclave, since October 7, 2023.
